Re: gradle wants openjdk-11 even if a newer version is installed? ...

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

debian-user@howorth.org.uk (12023-03-29):
> As others have pointed out, apt-get doesn't work like that. It seems to
> me that the gradle package is wrong in having java as a dependency,
> since the need can be resolved at run-time rather than install time,
> and by a dynamic link. So bug report the gradle package, not apt-get.

This is true for most packages: you can install your .so.* in
/usr/local/lib/. Yet packages depend on the shared libraries they need.

If you install something separately, the solution to have it fulfill
dependencies for packages is to make and install a dummy package.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George